A friend of mine at work brought this to me for help identifying it. Well I'm Stumped. The coin is about the size of a quarter and is identical on both sides and weighs about 5 grams. Any ideas from the guru's of world coin on the site? Thanks Everyone
It appears to be some sort of japanese token, imitating a Morgan Dollar. I don't believe it is a "hobo" Morgan Dollar however. It's interesting. Thanks for posting the picture!
Pachinko is a very popular Japanese style pinball game, and many of the parlors have the word "Plaza" as part of the English language name at their flag and balloon-decorated sites. Since the legend reads "Poraza", which is the way a Japanese speaker would pronounce "Plaza" (there is no "L" sound in Japanese), my WAG is that you have a pachinko parlor token.
I hadn't even thought pf that. You're probably right. It is most likely a token for a Pachislo Slot Machine. Does anyone recognize the 3 charatersat the top and bottom? I wonder if they mean anything. Also, If anyone has any other ideas or info that I can use to impress my friend with tomorrow at work I'd appreciate it. Sort of the collectors curse Isn't it, since I read Coin World in the lunch room I'm the resident expert on all things round and shiny. I enjoy the challanges and love to be the one to let a peron know that have something valuable, but sometimes it's a bit frustrating. Last year a co-worker brought in a cookie tin filled with rolls of silver coins that belonged to their now deceased grandmother. Most of it was just junk silver, so I about passed out when I dumped out a roll of Silver Dollars to find a full roll of 20 1921 Peace Dollars that looked like they came straight from the bank. They went on a cruise, and I got to pick one for my personal collection.
Read my prior post! Reading from left to right, the characters are "po", "ra", "za", in the Katakana syllabic script used for foreign words.
